The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. c. 9 March 1970. Private (Pte) Crabb, Corporal Burton and Pte Onrust examine a captured 12 gauge shot gun while Pte Marrow looks on; Pte Gillis is bent over examining a Browning Automatic rifle, the result of a sweep through the rugged Long Hai mountains during Operation Hammersley. The enemy weapons found by 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), which, supported by armour, artillery, air strikes and gun-fire, hounded a hard-core Viet Cong (VC) company throughout the area, for over two weeks. Most of the weapons came from caches in caves but some were uncovered by the incessant bombing and shelling of the mountains. To date over forty enemy have been killed in the operation.
PHUOC TUY PROVINCE, SOUTH VIETNAM. C. 9 MARCH 1970. THE RESULT OF A SWEEP THROUGH THE RUGGED LONG HAI MOUNTAINS DURING OPERATION HAMERSLEY. THE ENEMY WEAPONS WERE FOUND BY 8TH BATTALION, THE ROYAL AUS
Climbing mountains in a flak jacket and helmet is hot work for Private John Sandry of Richmond, NSW. His unit, C Company of 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (8RAR), was sweeping through a
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. 18 February 1970. Private (Pte) Darrell Hook of Redcliffe, Qld, passes out a Mosin-Nagant Carbine rifle from enemy weapons cache in a cave in the Long Hai mountains
Australian soldiers pause on a rock ledge during their sweep of a section of the Long Hai mountains to survey the ground below during Operation Hammersley. The area was the scene of a bitter battle be
Flashlight in hand, Sapper (Spr) Trevor Hughes of Beenleigh, Qld, emerges from the gloom of a cave in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hammersley. The cave held a cache of rocket propelled gren
Sapper Colin Heley of Liverpool, NSW, an engineer from the 1st Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), holding a dagger and a flashlight, clambers out of a cave in the Long Hai mountains aft
